8All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
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Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: …
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-8)To prove the vanity of all things under the sun, and their insufficiency to make us happy, Solomon here shows, 1. That the time of our enjoyment of these things is very short, and only while we accomplish as a hireling his day . We continue in the world but for one generation, which is continually passing away to make room for another, and we are passing with it. Our worldly possessions we very la…
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